Workshop about new techniques to teach english

1. DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES
LINGUISTICS CAREER
INTEGRATIVE PROJECT I OUTLINE

2. Garcia Gomez Carlos Fernando

3. One of the main problems in the teaching of
English language in an educational private
institution is that have some new students
who have poor or null knowledge of English
language. In this way, I accepted the
challenge to teach these students for leveling
and improving their skills, in order to avoid
bad grades, lack of interest and even worry
among people involved
(parents, teachers, and students).

4. At first, we have to analyze and describe the most
important reasons to apply this project. In fact, we
must describe how the research was based, it arose of
researching in a private school (Liceo Jerome Bruner)
placed at north of Quito, at the beginning of this new
scholar year. After a few days of evaluation, it was
noticed that the new students who came from a public
schools, were not at the same level of knowledge than
the other students.
Once we had gathered all the information about the
problem, we can start develop the project, setting the
parameters and focusing in the attainment of goals.

5. The preliminary results have shown that
there are some problems due the lack of
knowledge of the basic grammatical
structures of English.
The evaluation was based on the
corresponding curriculum design for
fourth level with topics as: use of
English, vocabulary, personal
information, basic grammatical
structures of English, and common
expressions in class.

6. METHODOLOGY:
Classroom assessment
methods, outlines a
range of methods
teachers use in
assessing children’s
knowledge.
OBJECTIVE: Show the
level of knowledge of
the children
DEVELOPMENT OF
ACTIVITY 1:
We organize this
examination in the
tentative same
schedule for the
workshop. It is on
Fridays with 2 hours of
duration. The students
had 30 minutes for this
test, and the results
were duly analyzed.

7. OBJECTIVE: Organize
in a duly way the
workshop to avoid
unexpected events.
 Once the results were
analyzed, it was
creating a curriculum
plan to develop the
workshop, taking into
account all those details
to be thought.

The workshop is going
to take place all Fridays
at 12:30 to 13:30.
 Therefore we had to
adequate the classroom
and making sure that
we have all didactic
materials that this
project needs.


8. The workshop started with seven children. In the first
class, we started it watching a movie, these are
movies oriented to the teaching of English for
children, they are known as Magic English. These
are videos that provide information and enable to
students interact with the characters.
 This creates a nice environment for the learning. It is
useful start the workshop with a warm up
activity, after that, we used some flashcards to
introduce new Vocabulary.
 It will be necessary follow the planning and
employing the most suitable methodology for each
class, in order to obtain the expected results


14. METHODOLOGY:
I think that the most suitable
is Inductive
Method, although during
the workshop we can used
many methodologies
according of student´s
needs. It is important
establish a module plan to
develop this project so here
is the module plan
developed of competencybased curriculum:
CRITERIA:
Introduce him/herself and others
in the correct way.
Make and answer questions
referring to personal
information
Recognition of familiar words
and phrases
Writing a short paragraph about
yourself
Reading of short paragraphs and
infer the main idea

15. EVALUATION ACTIVITY
After each class the
students will be evaluated
to follow the leveling
process. This enables us
implement tasks, correct
some strategies, and
reinforce the acquired
knowledge.
The Evaluation process
must to be applied
after each class due to
the short time for
developing this
project; and it is
important measure
the results constantly
to get an idea about
the progress of the
students

16. CAPACITIES EVALUATION
THEMATIC AXIS
Introduce self and others
Greetings
Ask and answer questions
about personal information
Verb “to be”
Identify words and phrases in
listening activities
Comprehend simple content
Personal
information
MAKING QUESTIONS
Common expressions in class
Numbers 1 – 100
Present and Past tense

17. The last day of the workshop the seven
students were evaluated and the results
shown that the 90% of the students
obtained the expected results, despite of
during the workshop many kids joined us
this provoked a little delay in the
knowledge adquisition.
We started the workshop with seven kids
and it finished with twenty.

18. The educational model maybe can have some
deficiencies, but , teachers have to turn the
problems into opportunities to learn more
and being a facilitator of knowledge.
Throughout this experience, we could learn
about strategies and techniques that can be
used in order to get the proposed objectives.

19. There are several problems that arose during
the development of this project. But mistakes
are normal in the learning process. So, it is
important consider some aspects to outline a
project.
The preliminary phase is important, because
we have to take into account some facts such
as who are the learners? What is their
background? Do we count with the duly
support of authorities? Are the parents
agreeing with these kinds of activities?

20. I could say that this project has enabled to
enrich my knowledge, and has been an
excellent experience for me as a teacher, I
know now that the children can enjoy this
way of learning